Good and bad of pSX!

[stranger90]

HERE WHY I LOVE pSX

1) There is no need to plugin: I don't like enanched grapichs (i prefer to play with the same grapich of the machine emulated) and I don't lose time for set the best configuration for run games: pSX is auto-selfed!!!!

2) Full-screen: for me is the best full screen ever, I can adjust brightness, gamma and contrast!!!! I play with 0.10 of brightness and is FAVOLOUS!!!!!

3) Good compatabilty: There are some issues with games but the compatabilty is good (many of my games runs and are playable)... I'm sure in a not far future pSX will play ALL Games.

4) Support for Audio CD: It's my favourite feature!!!! I can put a CD audio and play with the BIOS cd player... is not perfect like playstation but It's a good start!!!!! And remeber that pSX can play Vib Ribbon!

5) System request: it's not high! I can run with a P3 800 Mhz, 64 MB or RAM and a GFX card with 32 MB at 50.0 (full screen) a whole bunch of game!!! Where ePSXe lost frames when I put smoothing effect and dithering at max... pSX doesn't do!!!!!

SOMETIMES I HATE pSX

1) Better compatabilty: yes, many game won't work proprely or at all! pSX should great if can emulate many game hard to emulate:
Novastorm, Area 51, Rise of Robots 2, Disney's Pooh's Party Game, Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing, Formula One 2001, ecc...

2) Fix some problems: in many games memcard 1 doesn't work (or freeze games), the grapich sometimes doesn't appears like playstation (Oddworld menus, ecc...), sounds isn't like playstation (won't adjust volume of music, ecc...), CD control should be better (for XA, CDDA and some games that load constantly by CD), MDECs hangs, ecc...

3) (Isn't a bad thing but a suggestion) Support for mouse/multitap, ecc...: image that you can use 2 multitaps (8 controllers) for play FIFA with the friends, or play Quake 2 with the mouse. pSX will be better with more of this things!!

pSX author, we all hope for you!!!!

LONG LIFE TO pSX!!!!

[kinghanco]

It will take some time to fix the bugs and issues. So I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[xalos9]

Games that constantly load, such as Final Fantasy V, could be sped up by using a higher emulator disc speed, rather than 2x. Imagine loading a game inside a RAM disk for maximum performance.

However, I doubt this may be implemented in the future, because the emulator aims for 100% accuracy in PS1 emulation. Besides, it can cause problems with some games, just like when I play PS1 games on my PS2 using the Fast Disc Speed setting & on my PSP by playing PS1 games from PSN.

[Gamesoul Master]

Games like FFV are the reason I play the original instead of the emulated versions ported to later consoles. Besides, I like the hard work and quality of the fan-translated FFV over the americanized official translation.

But yeah, I know the feeling about upping the speed of emulated disc-reading. More humorous when you think about the fact that if you use fast-forward, it obviously goes past the loading screens much faster. Partly supports my theory that many loading screens are partly hardcoded to take as long as they do, at least up to a point. Maybe somebody else has a little more information on how that works though.

[crispyxuk]

Its perfect apart from the fact there is no OSX port yet

[cygoku]

Don't forget that we have to see the bios each time we run pSX and that the linux user don't have s/w rendering.

Cygoku

[patrickp]

Actually, I think the BIOS screen, which a Playstation also displays, was one of the things that won a lot of people over to pSX in the first place, cygoku.

[xalos9]

The GNU/Linux version does use software rendering, although it uses OpenGL (not the CPU) to draw the rendered frames. As far as I know Cygoku, there are no hardware renderers on the GNU/Linux version.

[thespoonyhou]

SOMETIMES I HATE pSX

4) Looks like crap when the filtering is turned off.
Well, at least it looks better than the other emulators...

[ls650]

I have played with several emulators. I enjoy _pSX_ the most: very easy to set up, very high level of compatibility, etc.
I like the philosophy of concentrating on maximum compatibility, rather than adding a lot of bells and whistles that distract from being as close to the "real thing" as possible.